Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke is a rising star in the Democratic party and has gathered steam as a contender for the 2020 Democratic nomination. Perhaps threatened by his ascension, Bernie Sanders militants have relentlessly attacked him, claiming amongst other things that he ...read more

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is doing everything liberals have been begging progressives to do for years. She working with the party. She's staying respectful instead of throwing bombs all day. She's pushing the party to the left without doing her level best to divide it. But ...read more

After losing the Democratic nomination in 2016, Bernie Sanders started Our Revolution, an organization devoted to grassroots organizing and raising the profiles of progressive candidates. However, today's POLITICO article by Edward-Isaac Dovere paints a bleak picture of an ...read more

The hard left, in its pursuit of punishing the Democratic Party, has abandoned the concept of real world progress in favor of a nonexistent political purity. The belief is that crippling the party will force them to swing to the far left and bring about liberal utopia. It won't ...read more

The race is on to narrativize everything that has led to the election of Donald Trump. On the right, a hero has improbably emerged to lead the party where Priebus and the old guard had no idea it wanted to go. On the left, everything that took place leading up to his victory is ...read more

It's a long-standing political trope that politicians have to appeal to their base during the primary by heading towards the fringe and then tack back towards the center in the general. Jeb Bush even made a stink about it before getting Trumped: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush made ...read more

Newark, New Jersey mayor Cory Booker is one step closer to being the next senator from the Garden State. He won the Democratic primary on Tuesday by a significant margin over his rivals, Rep. Frank Pallone, Assembly Speaker Shiela Oliver and Rep. Rush Holt. Historically ...read more

By Ted Lieverman: I get uneasy when I see liberals and progressives complaining so vigorously about President Barack Obama’s lack of accomplishments. Sure, the last four years have seen many mistakes and disappointments by the White House. But when I think about the realistic ...read more

By Bob Cesca: Over the weekend, actor and activist John Cusack posted an interview he conducted with George Washington University constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley. You might recall seeing Turley on Countdown with Keith Olbermann over the years, and you probably ...read more

In case you missed it, here's what we covered this week at The Daily Banter (and it was a very big week for us - highest traffic so far!): Mark Ames broke a big story on the Left's total abandonment of labor rights, Chez Pazienza wrote a heart breaking piece on the merciless ...read more